@HIPPIE VAN -
It HAS gotten a little out of hand around here. Anyone without a monacle and valet is automatically viewed with suspicion.
@OZONE -
Thanks man! Well, whatever doesn't kill us makes us much weaker, I always say!
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Genejoke wrote:We also had a BBQ, but it's getting cold here (Winter is coming). The BBQing is because our kicthen STILL isn't complete yet (due to a delay with the benchtop). Sigh.
I had a BBQ today, yup it's hot over here.
Wife: 'Are those sausages done yet?'
Me: 'I've got no idea.'
Wife: 'Why not?'
Me: 'Because it's dark and I can't see them.'
Banes wrote:Agreed!
@OZONE - whatever doesn't kill us makes us much weaker
I've often thought the same thing… Nietzsche's comment doesn't translate well outside of mental fortitude.
Adding "emotionally" to the original quote would sort of ruin the manly stoicism a bit :(
We had a beautiful sunny day today, probably around 13-15°C but sadly we're not having BBQ only pizza. Meh… food is food.
In other news, me and my brother, we both are guitar players, have been practicing for a family reunion. He plays classical guitar while I'm more of a blues/jazz player and it's kind of funny to see how much he looks up to me, although he'd never publicly admit that one…
Macattack wrote:Then I guess I'bve never BBQed ;-) Mittens would add an element of danger, especially if flammable.
@Gunwallace: I always say that you've never really had a bbq until you've bbq'd in a blizzard. It's great as you are constantly checking the burgers mainly so you can stay warm. Plus it takes real skill to use tongs with mittins on!
No blizzards in these parts.
Although I have BBQed in a summer thunderstorm once … being very carful never to raise the spatula above my head. The rain came down so hard the meat was almost floating on the grill. :-)
Another Memorial Day weekend has come and gone. Sunday my relief at work called out because her bird had died. The young lady has a menagerie of animals and this bird was one of those long-lived ones that becomes a house guest as opposed to a pet. So when she called she was very upset and crying.
Some tenents upon hearing this immediately though she was faking. I replied "She's not that good an actor." The performance was too good to have been faked unless she was Meryl Streep. Other than that it was the usual parade of drunks wandering in that have to be escorted up to their rooms and the usual noise complaint. Seems someone is on a diuretic and has to go to the bathroom during the night. When she goes she just scoots across the bare floor in her dining room chair making the noise of nails on a chalkboard. Like what do you tell the person? Oh well. Just document it and pass it along.
I dunno what's happened to the Quackcast this week… Maybe you guys in the US have a long weekend or something, but it's just a single file that has to be uploaded and pre-written notes that need copying and pasting.
I don't get paid for doing those, they're done in my fucking free time. Banes doesn't get paid either. I was up till 2am on Sunday night recording it and up till 1am on Monday night editing it and doing notes.
If a person can't take 5 minutes out of their little bloody holiday… I sacrifice thousands of hours of my own personal free time for this site, and more…
You know sometimes… I dunno.
Sometimes I think we need new admins here to take over instead. People who're more with it and current with the site, such as it is.
Hey Oz, I'm not quite sure what it is that went wrong but I myself would be willing to at least help out in the next couple of months. I should be having some more time in a week or two, mail me and I'm at your command.
I'm quite sure everyone appreciates everything you, as an admin as well as a Quackcast hero, have done for the site. I know I have! Maybe you could take some time off and appoint someone else to do a series of Quackcasts.
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Would everyone go here:
http://www.drunkduck.com/forum/topic/175181/
ozoneocean wrote:
I dunno what's happened to the Quackcast this week… Maybe you guys in the US have a long weekend or something…
Precisely this.
You know sometimes… I dunno.
Sometimes I think we need new admins here to take over instead. People who're more with it and current with the site, such as it is.
Somehow, I have my doubts that there's anyone who has the patience, willingness or skill to put up with it half as well as well as you manage the job. Right now, at risk of turning this into another "what's wrong with DD" shit-fit, I'd say it's the same problem that causes all the other problems around the site.
That being said, I'd love to contribute, but unless you guys want to do an entire conversation about the field of making graphics for t-shirts, coffee mugs and other useless crap that people still buy, or marketing a new and small brand, I'm kind of useless I think. I'm completely incapable of even so much as editing together 5 seconds of sound without screwing it up much less 5 minutes or 50. But if there is some way I can lend a hand, like providing and interview or some content or something not too technical-related, just tell me what and I'll do it.
Guys, that would be cool! I will keep you both solidly in mind for that!
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Heh, graphics for T-shirts and coffee mugs… man… I really hate doing both of those.
-Shirts because clients want too much info on them and it ruins any design you come up with (they ALWAYS come back with changes that require more info), and if they come up with their own design 80% it's horrible.
-Mugs because all mugs are different, some have strange requirements, and the suppliers are lazy at providing print specs. Without exception.
Constant irritation with clients generally: greys, black, white, and tones of colours are ALL different colours! When I ask for a one colour version of your logo do not provide me with something that has 5 colours!
That's not just an issue with non-graphic artists either. over 50% of the time it's graphic artists that supply so called "one colour" logos, made up of several colours that can't be simply made into one colour without violating corporate guidelines. I'd say about 35% of corporate logo guidelines are complete balls.
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Here's something weird-
So many people I have met have this bizarrely romantic, nostalgic impression of milk from farms. Including my mum!
They say it's the best they ever tasted, nothing like fresh milk etc…
But when I was little my dad was the bank manager (when that still meant something) in a small regional town, and he would often take us kids out to see the farms when farmers were applying for loans and things… I saw a few small dairy farms and there was NOTHING romantic about them!
Milking sheds were concrete floored, with steel rails, concrete ramps, stainless steel equipment, the ground was always wet from being hosed down, it reeked of cow-piss… the poor cows are separated from their calfs, they're visibly sad, their full udders are terribly uncomfortable, they crap everywhere, and the milk tastes nasty.
Pasteurise and homogenise that stuff please… I've never seen anything romantic about dairy farms and they must be one of THE worst places to work.
Growing up in rural NZ I've milked a few cows in my time. My favourite job was hosing down the milking shed after the milking. That high pressure hose could really make the shit fly!!!
Farm fresh milk does taste great–rich, creamy, and oh so fatty. And if a farmer is drinking his own milk you can generally be confident of it. In NZ at least every batch is tested before it is taken by the milk tanker, and if the shit to milk ratio is too high (and it's a very low tolerence) the milk is dumped and unpaid for, so farmers do their best to keep it clean-ish.
But as a history student I'm fully aware of the historial reasons why pasturiation came into being, and would not want to see commercial unpausterised milk entering the market. Farmers giving to friends and neighbours I have no problem with, but once you step beyond that you run the risk of the bad old days returning. As for supposed health benefits of unpasterised milk … you have to remember that any 'back-in-the-olden-days-they-did-this' health cure that is touted always overlooks the incedibly low life expectancy of the past, and the incredibly high infant mortality rates.
In my all time list of shitty places I've worked, dairy farms come in third after hog farms and my last job. The last job for the obvious reasons anyone hates a desk job, but multiplied by a factor of 10, and the hog farms for the stench. If you think cows stink, wait until you get a whiff of the joy that is an American hog farm. The stench does not ever come out of anything. period. You'll step into a shed they haven't used in 4 or 5 years, and you'll still gag and choke on the leftover scent. It's unbelievable that it can still linger after that long, but it does.
The stench is bad enough when driving by dairy, hog and chicken farms let alone actually getting anywhere inside. The wife used to live downwind of Tyson's so I'd get the stories. You get the smell some miles away on the highway.
NJ is famous for dairy farming and I used to go to one practically weekly as a kid to get fresh milk. I got to know that smell. NJ also has tons of horses. I got to know that smell. Just love going to ACW or AWI reinactments where they have cavalry so I can just get a good strong whiff of horseshit/sweat smell. Right by my house is a farm with goats, borros and they don't stink too much.
But then once upon a time people smelled pretty bad too. The other day I fixed the porch, worked up a sweat and went right to bed. The next morning the wife accused me of having some really nasty gas. No, it was sweat. Yeah people stink too.
Ewwww, Gunwallace: Hosemaster!
Lba, the first time I ever came across pigshit was a bad moment for me. I do not like anything about pigs.
Bravo, horse crap doesn't smell too bad because of what they eat and how little their body processes it, but horse piss is another matter. One of the all time worst smells. Especially on a cold, cold day when you're hit full in the nostrils by those warm steamy fumes.
I used to ride a LOT and I never got used to that stink.
Horse crap does wear on you though when you spend your mornings raking up piles off it then carrying heavy bags of the warm, wet stuff over your shoulder on the way to dumping it for the fertiliser truck to pick up.
I did that when I used to ride… and later on, that almost became my first paying job. SO lucky I dodged that bullet.
ozoneocean wrote:I remember on my first job, driving a skidloader for a logging company, we used to help out the farmer's to get a deal on the logs we bought from their land, I used to end up helping out with cleaning barn lots a lot during the spring. The first time I did it, I maxed out the manure trailer 7 times and filled it 3/4 of the way again. It was a 10,000 pound load limit trailer. The poo had literally frozen in layers over the winter until it was three feet deep in a large part of the lot. But that's what happens when you have 150 head of cattle crapping in the same small area for 4 1/2 months. It's not as gross as having to carry it on your shoulder, but the thought of all that crap still brings a horrible scent to my nostrils.
Horse crap does wear on you though when you spend your mornings raking up piles off it then carrying heavy bags of the warm, wet stuff over your shoulder on the way to dumping it for the fertiliser truck to pick up.
I did that when I used to ride… and later on, that almost became my first paying job. SO lucky I dodged that bullet.
ozoneocean wrote:i used to have a 'pet' pig, named Muldoon after a New Zealand prime minister. Muldoon was a she, however … who liked to eat roses when she could, to my mother's horror. When she gave birth to a dozen little piglets I got to watch them being fired out of her like … well, like greased piglets. Man, those suckers were spat out of there. Here are some pitures of the event Guyanne Landry drew for me …
I do not like anything about pigs.
I remember Muldoon… for some reason I always thought he was a bit of a crook. Didn't he have a bad reputation at the time?
That pic is hillarious!
Listeing to Sing, Sing, Sing by Benny Goodman… Man, the start of that tune rivals The Levee Breaks by Zepllelin. Driving drumbeat full of threat, harsh learing trumpets cutting in… wow.
I've always liked that track, but never really sought it out just to listen to it.
I've tried to hang on for as long as I could, but I think I'm finally going to have to call it quits on DD. Every since that bar at the bottom was added the site has run ridiculously slowly for me, and the 502 bad gateway errors are completely out of hand. It was my birthday yesterday and I thought I'd do a little post about that, but this is the first time in two days that I've been able to get as far as posting.
Good luck to the rest of you still here.
That's a shame to lose you Hippy. aA real smae.
Happy Birthday! ^_^
The 502 errors yesterday were fixed up in good time. They come every now and again, and usually don't last,. When they come in strength I notify Wowio and a full restrat of the servers gets done and that puts it right again. Nothing really to quit over. :)
Hippie Van wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ftWerL1Wcs
I've tried to hang on for as long as I could, but I think I'm finally going to have to call it quits on DD. Every since that bar at the bottom was added the site has run ridiculously slowly for me, and the 502 bad gateway errors are completely out of hand. It was my birthday yesterday and I thought I'd do a little post about that, but this is the first time in two days that I've been able to get as far as posting.
Good luck to the rest of you still here.
Awww… Hippie's gone now? That's too bad.
Maybe we could all coördinate a large commercial campaign on the internet?
If we'd all put our heads together and come up with something, we'll be able to get some more people interested in the duck. When traffic picks up over here Wowio will see it as a more profitable investment and give us more attention. I was thinking of at least the following:
- Converting the earlier chapters of some volunteering comics into motion comics for showing on youtube.
- Assigning fans of social media the task of creating and maintaining an active Facebook and Twitter account. Linking to interesting new developments in bith the comic book industra as well as DD itself.
- Starting competitions on the front page of DD and advertising these competitions over the social media outlets. (Who can make the best 3-frame comic about their cat?, Who can draw the best image of Duck and Quail, Bounty hunters? Who can design the best Drunk Duck Logo?) And then Announcing the winner on the Quackcast.
- Creating a collaborative online wiki of how to draw comics.
- Posting DD icons EVERYWHERE.
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